Splinter Cell Conviction's new teaser site opens, reveals emo Sam

by Andrew Yoon on May 15th 2009 1:30AM

"I lost my daughter. I shot my best friend."

Boo hoo, Sam Fisher. Are you going to get some black lipstick now to match your totally emo beard?

In all seriousness, though, it appears the long-delayed Splinter Cell Conviction might, y'know, actually come out. Ubisoft has opened a second teaser site for the game, promising even more updates on May 20th and May 28th. This is great news for the Joystiq staff, as we've been relegated to using the same screenshot for nearly every Splinter Cell story for the last two years. Finally! Something new to Photoshop.

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I love Michael Ironside's voice

I love his voice too but I also love the Initial D style drifting airplane near the end of the video.

I guess Takumi has grown up a bit and grown beyond driving cars?

"TAKUMIIIIIII DRIFT THAT PLANE!"

Whatever happened to this rumor? http://xbox.joystiq.com/2008/06/09/rumor-conviction-loses-voice-of-sam-fisher/

Not sure if that's Michael Ironside's voice or not.

Emo or not, I want to play this game. The earlier videos looked awesome in a "screw shadows, I'm just going to knock over every table I run past" kind of way.

While I assume they've changed the game quite a bit since then, I hope it's not back to Splinter Cell save-the-world missions after one mission as a renegade.

Yea I'm hoping to see a lot more "hiding" out in public. Trying to blend in, being inconspicuous while pursuing your objective. They've always pulled off the sneaking around in restricted areas pretty well, but after a while the levels end up feeling kind of empty.

MOTHERFUCKING YEAH!!! Sam is back!!!!!

Seriously though, it fucking took them long enough. The splinter cell series are my favorite franchise. I hope they build on Double Agents multiplayer which in my opinion was the best one of the four.

I didn't get into the MP much, but I still think Pandora Tomorrow had the best campaign.

CT is still the best. And isn't Sam like 80 years old by this point. I love Splinter Cell as much as the next stealth ninja loving enthusiast. Maybe they could do a flash back to the cold war or something...

I highly doubt they will be able to top MGS4.

Of course, Im a MGS fanboy, but still.

and wherece did they claim it would be?

I think it probably will. Splinter cell has always had the edge in the stealth area of the game. That's just my opinion though.

I love both, but if someone's looking for a more realistic approach I would argue that Splinter Cell has the upper hand.

Of course SC is more realistic, you don't fight mooing geckos and near immortal vampires in SC. Im just arguing MGS is the better stealth experiance.

If by better stealth you mean running around in cardboard boxes and dropping nudie magazine booby traps, then yeah, MGS is better...

I always felt like SC's levels had better flow. They felt like continuous areas whereas MGS levels tend to really feel broken up into stages. I suppose you could chalk it up to differences in regional design theology.

I'm going to have to disagree that MG has better stealth action, stealth camo yes but action no. It's like asking what's better orange soda or root beer. I love both for different reasons. MetalGear= Boss Fights and active camo. SplinterCell= Sneaky secret ninja soldier guy who sneaks around.

ya know what, I'm gonna dust off the SC trilogy just to spite you

Aaah stealthy goodness without the horrible mindfucks of Hideo Kojima

I enjoyed MGS1, but it wasn't really stealth, it even calleds it's self 'Tactical Action'

Splinter Cell is Stealth.. hell even in the first game, you could (apparently) complete the game firing 1 bullet if you were good enough..

I don't see how MGS4 isn't as "stealthy" as SC. The game is just so versatile that you can play it without being stealthy if you wish. In certain difficulties, if your even seen its game over, I don't see how it gets more stealthy than that.

Im not hating on SC, Chaos Theory was an awesome game...just nothing compared to MGS.

But whatever, this debate won't end b/c I am a diehard MGS fanboy, and MGS is my absolutle favorite game series of all time, right next to zelda.

Rocket launchers and giant mechs aren't stealth. There, I said it. Your move salesman.

A small side note, but i hate it when games/tv/movies depict the moon to be that freaking close to the earth.

In Japan, it's actually brighter at night. Fun fact.

And according to all Japanese games, the Moon appears to be as big as Jupiter during the night

Ya, the scaling in that trailer was terrible. Also stuff like a random satellite, lack of clouds and a plane flying sideways >_

Am I missing something here? The video ends before it even gets to the little island, is there another video somewhere showing gameplay?

yeah man - same here - what gives???

Well at the end it talks about the transmission being cut off, so I assume that the other bullet holes will be a continuation of the trailer. I don't understand why you would break apart a trailer though, kind of a lame idea.

Hi,

Just a quick one to Richard:

After playing condemmed 2, or just the demo, one have to ask ? - Why is Emo - Sam in both games, are they twins ?, or just look-a-likes ?

Any conspiracy theories ?

Wait, what friend did he shoot? I thought we weren't going with the "Terrorists ftw" ending of Double Agent.

It was in Chaos Theory.

I thought you ended up wounding Lambert at the end of Double Agent no matter what. It's been a while...

In Double Agent, he has to shoot Lambert, and in Chaos Theory he kills his friend Douglas Shetland. I guess it could be referring to either.

you dont have to shoot Lambert, you can shoot Emile Jamie Washington and then start the final sequence where you take down Emile

I meant just jamie washington, I had typed Emile Dufraine but remembered he wasnt shot right yet, but forgot to backspace it all

Bah, I don't want Jason Bourne or Hitman, we already have games like that.... I want Splinter Cell. Why Ubisoft... why must you toy with my emotions.

I'm glad you are outraged over the apparent gameplay switch too. How they can go from stealth-action to what appears to be a strategy game in which you "pilot" a man-made satellite is beyond me...

All I know is SC is back in Montreal where it belongs, out of the malevolent talons of Ubisoft Shanghai, and that is all I could possibly ask for. Loved the original gameplay footage, and am eagerly looking forward to finding out whatever it is they took so long to change about it. Hopefully it will be every bit as good as Chaos Theory, and do as much to push the power of the PS360 and stealth gameplay as CT did on the original Xbox.

Beards are emo now? Damn. I better go cut myse.. I mean, shave.

Agreed, I could be missing something but not only are beards not emo, but aren't they actually.. yknow.. the *opposite* of emo?
I also grow tired of emo being used as an insult but that's a different matter.

beards mean you're evil, at least goatees

So....from that video Sam is in Malta....on holiday?!

or.....

1) He's now teaching scuba diving...
2) He's about to go have at the mafia over on Sicily.

I've been to Malta, there's dick all there apart from a lovely place to have a holiday and some amazing dive sites. So I really dunno what they're up to with this one...

"I can see my house from here!"

I hope this delivers, we've been without SC for too long.

THATS IN MALTA WHERE I LIVE :D

We Maltese are damn proud of our little island! :)

I heard you guys have a pretty cool falcon, too.

The Maltese Falcon was just a gift given to a king. We don't have much Falcons here. But hey ... we have some pretty cool Maltese Dogs! Check them out, I think Sam would love one as a companion. They bark people to death.

Damn Straight!

Can't believe its located in our dinky little island of a country xD

So being sad about losing his daughter is emo. Oh yeah emo means emotion... Oh and having a beard seems to make more emo.

Andrew are you hating on Xbox because it's not coming to lovely Playstation? Posts like this annoy me on Joystiq and why I prefer Kotaku over this shit.

Settle down, fanboy, settle down

I thought Sam's daughter was alive -- that she was actually kidnapped not killed and you find and rescue her in the DA bonus mission on th PS2? I guess ubisoft didn't play their own game, lol.

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